Interesting article: Tesla Semi Electric Motorhome.
Tesla semi electtic motorhome.
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way2roll,
I agree with you.
Plus, we tend to keep our vehicles for A LONG TIME. Our 2004 chassis motorhome is our NEWEST vehicle, followed by my 2003 Suzuki and our 2001 Honda. I expect another 5-10 years out of all of those vehicles. The average lifespan for vehicles, I believe is somewhere around 17 years. We obviously keep ours much longer. Part of my contribution to help out the planet is by keeping them out of the landfill. (Ditto all of our major appliances.)
These "high-tech" EVs (and even the high-tech ICE vehicles) have so much technology on them, I suspect some of their parts base will be categorized as obsolete in 5-10 years.
So, if the battery pack on an EV needs to be replaced in 10 years, let alone 20, what guarantee does one have that A.) a battery pack will still be available and B.) charging stations will be available a decade or two in the future to charge a "legacy" EV vehicle.
How many more iterations of charging station technology will there be in the next decade? The current stations will be mostly replaced with the newer technology.
I suspect EVERYONE who had anything to do with writing that article about the EV-RV has NEVER owned a motorhome, or possibly ever even gone camping. You'd think the least they could do is make the numbers applicable to a typical RV application. Of course, then things just don't look so attractive!
Maybe, MAYBE, in the years 2030-2040, we might see such vehicles. I'm not even sure they'll be self-driving by then, but I'm certainly NOT going to get excited anytime soon about EVs. In my opinion, I think when all is said and done with EV ownership, most will find they were not such a bargain. Maybe if you're the type that leases a new vehicle every 3 years regardless, it'll be an option, and you'll "feel better" about yourself thinking that "you saved the planet" (cough cough) :) . But for those of us who value our hard-earned money and ALSO care about the planet, you can't beat the savings of long-term ownership. And long-term ownership requires confidence in a parts base being available. I don't think EVs can offer that because the technology is changing too rapidly.
~Rick
I agree with you.
Plus, we tend to keep our vehicles for A LONG TIME. Our 2004 chassis motorhome is our NEWEST vehicle, followed by my 2003 Suzuki and our 2001 Honda. I expect another 5-10 years out of all of those vehicles. The average lifespan for vehicles, I believe is somewhere around 17 years. We obviously keep ours much longer. Part of my contribution to help out the planet is by keeping them out of the landfill. (Ditto all of our major appliances.)
These "high-tech" EVs (and even the high-tech ICE vehicles) have so much technology on them, I suspect some of their parts base will be categorized as obsolete in 5-10 years.
So, if the battery pack on an EV needs to be replaced in 10 years, let alone 20, what guarantee does one have that A.) a battery pack will still be available and B.) charging stations will be available a decade or two in the future to charge a "legacy" EV vehicle.
How many more iterations of charging station technology will there be in the next decade? The current stations will be mostly replaced with the newer technology.
I suspect EVERYONE who had anything to do with writing that article about the EV-RV has NEVER owned a motorhome, or possibly ever even gone camping. You'd think the least they could do is make the numbers applicable to a typical RV application. Of course, then things just don't look so attractive!
Maybe, MAYBE, in the years 2030-2040, we might see such vehicles. I'm not even sure they'll be self-driving by then, but I'm certainly NOT going to get excited anytime soon about EVs. In my opinion, I think when all is said and done with EV ownership, most will find they were not such a bargain. Maybe if you're the type that leases a new vehicle every 3 years regardless, it'll be an option, and you'll "feel better" about yourself thinking that "you saved the planet" (cough cough) :) . But for those of us who value our hard-earned money and ALSO care about the planet, you can't beat the savings of long-term ownership. And long-term ownership requires confidence in a parts base being available. I don't think EVs can offer that because the technology is changing too rapidly.
~Rick
